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While originally designed for image generation, diffusion models have recently shown to provide excellent pretrained feature representations for semantic segmentation. Intrigued by this result, we set out to explore how well…

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This paper presents our method for the generative track of The First Dataset Distillation Challenge at ECCV 2024. Since the diffusion model has become the mainstay of generative models because of its high-quality generative effects, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Duo Su , Junjie Hou , Guang Li , Ren Togo , Rui Song , Takahiro Ogawa , Miki Haseyama

There has been exciting progress in generating images from natural language or layout conditions. However, these methods struggle to faithfully reproduce complex scenes due to the insufficient modeling of multiple objects and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Yunnan Wang , Ziqiang Li , Zequn Zhang , Wenyao Zhang , Baao Xie , Xihui Liu , Wenjun Zeng , Xin Jin

Histopathological image segmentation is a laborious and time-intensive task, often requiring analysis from experienced pathologists for accurate examinations. To reduce this burden, supervised machine-learning approaches have been adopted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Vishnuvardhan Purma , Suhas Srinath , Seshan Srirangarajan , Aanchal Kakkar , Prathosh A. P

In this study we develop dimension-reduction techniques to accelerate diffusion model inference in the context of synthetic data generation. The idea is to integrate compressed sensing into diffusion models (hence, CSDM): First, compress…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-30 Zhengyi Guo , Jiatu Li , Wenpin Tang , David D. Yao

A generative modeling framework is proposed that combines diffusion models and manifold learning to efficiently sample data densities on manifolds. The approach utilizes Diffusion Maps to uncover possible low-dimensional underlying (latent)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Dimitris G. Giovanis , Ellis Crabtree , Roger G. Ghanem , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

In this paper, we present an automated pipeline for generating domain-specific synthetic datasets with diffusion models, addressing the distribution shift between pre-trained models and real-world deployment environments. Our three-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Dongsik Yoon , Jongeun Kim

Data augmentation is crucial for pixel-wise annotation tasks like semantic segmentation, where labeling requires significant effort and intensive labor. Traditional methods, involving simple transformations such as rotations and flips,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Quang-Huy Che , Duc-Tri Le , Bich-Nga Pham , Duc-Khai Lam , Vinh-Tiep Nguyen

This paper considers the problem of utilizing a large-scale text-to-image diffusion model to tackle the challenging Inexact Segmentation (IS) task. Unlike traditional approaches that rely heavily on discriminative-model-based paradigms or…

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Automated semantic segmentation of cell nuclei in microscopic images is crucial for disease diagnosis and tissue microenvironment analysis. Nonetheless, this task presents challenges due to the complexity and heterogeneity of cells. While…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-10 Zhuchen Shao , Sourya Sengupta , Hua Li , Mark A. Anastasio

High Dynamic Range (HDR) generation remains challenging for generative models, which are largely limited to low dynamic range outputs. Recent diffusionbased approaches approximate HDR by generating multiple exposure-conditioned samples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Pedram Fekri , WenChen Li , William Chen , Peter Altamirano

Diffusion models (DMs) have achieved state-of-the-art results for image synthesis tasks as well as density estimation. Applied in the latent space of a powerful pretrained autoencoder (LDM), their immense computational requirements can be…

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Recent advances in generative models, such as diffusion models, have made generating high-quality synthetic images widely accessible. Prior works have shown that training on synthetic images improves many perception tasks, such as image…

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The scarcity of high-quality segmentation masks remains a major bottleneck for medical image analysis, particularly in non-contrast CT (NCCT) neuroimaging, where manual annotation is costly and variable. To address this limitation, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Lucia Borrego , Vajira Thambawita , Marco Ciuffreda , Ines del Val , Alejandro Dominguez , Josep Munuera

Training of semantic segmentation models for material analysis requires micrographs and their corresponding masks. It is quite unlikely that perfect masks will be drawn, especially at the edges of objects, and sometimes the amount of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Matias Oscar Volman Stern , Dominic Hohs , Andreas Jansche , Timo Bernthaler , Gerhard Schneider

Recent advances in conditional image generation from diffusion models have shown great potential in achieving impressive image quality while preserving the constraints introduced by the user. In particular, ControlNet enables precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Hannah Kniesel , Pedro Hermosilla , Timo Ropinski

Generating high-quality labeled image datasets is crucial for training accurate and robust machine learning models in the field of computer vision. However, the process of manually labeling real images is often time-consuming and costly. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Michael Shenoda , Edward Kim

Medical image segmentation suffers from data scarcity, particularly in polyp detection where annotation requires specialized expertise. We present SynDiff, a framework combining text-guided synthetic data generation with efficient…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Muhammad Aqeel , Maham Nazir , Zanxi Ruan , Francesco Setti

Entrusted with the goal of pixel-level object classification, the semantic segmentation networks entail the laborious preparation of pixel-level annotation masks. To obtain pixel-level annotation masks for a given class without human…

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